We have been routinely seeing open source projects getting hit by malicious actors with varying degrees of sophistication. Developers are often left scrambling to push out fixes in such situations. As to why they get targeted, their attack surface is wide, maintainer
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AI has been creeping into everything, and the Linux ecosystem is no exception. Over the last couple of years, local AI has gone from a niche curiosity to something people can actually run on their machines. On the user side, tools like
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Microsoft’s in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux, may be heading for a significant overhaul. According to a recent report, the Big Tech giant is reportedly exploring the idea of rebasing Azure Linux on Fedora, which would be a notable shift in how the
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The MinIO GitHub repository was recently archived on April 25, 2026. But the thing is, it had been archived before, back in February, then briefly unarchived, and now it’s locked again. Whether MinIO flips the switch again is anyone’s guess, but it
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Back in March, Firefox 149 was released with many changes, like a free built-in VPN, a Split View that allows the loading of two pages side by side, and the XDG portal file picker as the new default on Linux. However, an
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KVM devices let you remotely control a computer by capturing its display output and emulating a keyboard and mouse without having a hypervisor in the mix. They are an important tool in a sysadmin’s inventory. Take a KVM-over-IP device, for instance; it
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Lubuntu is an official Ubuntu flavor that uses LXQt as its default desktop environment. It is one of the lighter options in the Ubuntu family, built around keeping resource usage low without stripping out the things people actually need from a desktop,
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Kubuntu is one of the longest-running Ubuntu flavors and also one of the more sensible ones to recommend. It ships the KDE Plasma desktop on top of an Ubuntu base and is maintained by a volunteer team that tracks the KDE release
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Ubuntu doesn’t need much of an introduction. It has been a reliable starter distro for people finding their way into Linux for years, and for good reasons as well. It installs without drama, runs on most hardware, and the surrounding community is
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Linux has had a quiet takeover of computing. It powers all of the world’s top 500 supercomputers and Android, which runs on billions of smartphones. It has also found its way into places that have nothing to do with traditional computing. Smart
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